Comments on: NASA gets piece of tail

NASA gets piece of tail

mania — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:07:08 -0800

This weekend, NASA will order the Stardust spacecraft to jettison its 100-pound capsule that contains comet dust. The capsule will hurdle through earth's atmosphere and make a soft landing in the Utah desert. Not directly connected to last summer's Deep Impact, Stardust's mission is to bring comet debris back to earth for study. Here's hoping we don't need the Wildfire lab.

By: LarryC

LarryC — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:09:59 -0800

Every sci-fi horror movie starts exactly like this. Interesting post! Will this be webcast live?

By: mania

mania — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:16:06 -0800

No live webcast, but NASA is promoting going out and looking for yourself.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:27:00 -0800

You are in my arms The nightingale tells his fairy tale Of paradise where roses grew. Though I dream in vain, in my heart you will remain My stardust melody The memory of love's refrain.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:31:13 -0800

The capsule will hurdle through earth's atmosphere i've heard of high hurdles but this is ridiculous.

By: keswick

keswick — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:39:47 -0800

You've been warned. The zombie apocolypse is imminent. I'll be hiding in Steve Dallas' old bunker.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:04:35 -0800

Seriously, are they trying to turn us into zombies? Doesn't anyone at Nasa have cable? I'll be in the basement stacking double ought and cases of Dinty Moore, someone make sure and bring a can opener.

By: rocket88

rocket88 — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:08:26 -0800

Keep drinking Sterno, and you'll be fine.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:16:24 -0800

Y'know, we've got plenty of dust and debris down here...

By: Atreides

Atreides — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:22:41 -0800

No mandatory welcome to our new space zombie overlords, yet? slackers.

By: NationalKato

NationalKato — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:23:56 -0800

Robot Johnny, this is SPACE dust, man, SPACE dust. From SPACE.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:36:29 -0800

I heard there was some skimming from the Stardust from Lefty Rosenthal. NASA button men are going to bury Spilotro in the Utah desert.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:02:57 -0800

" The capsule will hurdle through earth's atmosphere and make a soft landing in the Utah desert." Note to self: This weekend is a good time to visit Idaho.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:43:17 -0800

Klatu, Baradda Nickto!

By: signalnine

signalnine — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:18:22 -0800

Oh well, it's just Utah.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:36:04 -0800

Hopefully Bruce Dern and his adorable Johnny Eck-like robot pals will be able to murder the rest of the crew before they can jettison the cargo. Then we can all listen to awful Joan Baez ballad in peace. If not, well, I have a feeling it's a good time to be an Astro Zombie.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:33:13 -0800

"Oh well, it's just Utah" Oh, yeah? Well, you wait until all those Mormon missionaries turn into mutated space alien Mormon missionaries, you'll be dismissive out the other side of your hat then, by jove.

By: exhilaration

exhilaration — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:52:16 -0800

Didn't they try this a few months ago in early or mid-2005 and the thing just crashed and they lost the comet material?